I had my usual for lunch yesterday...2 slices of seeded bread with cheese and a protein bar. I felt sleepy straight afterwards. Done my blood sugar 2 hours later and it was 6.3.
I don't usually feel sleepy when I have this meal, so just wondered if it would've shot my sugar levels up too quick...but how do I know just by testing 2 hours later?
Would it have gone higher than 6.3?
Is that a bad or good reading for insulin resistance?
Did you do a pre meal test?
The thing is that unless you test pre meal and certain time after, I could only guess what is giving you that result.
Feeling sleepy after food could be rapid rise in blood, I found this out. And the majority of symptoms are the cause of blood fluctuations in RH. Having an imbalance in hormonal response will lead to this, if the trigger because of the carbs causing an insulin overshoot. If you need to, I would test at different times after eating. You can find things out about your body.
My advice is to reduce your carbs until you feel better and keep testing, find your spike and when you start dropping glucose levels.
If I had a reading of 6.3mmols after eating at two hours, that would most probably alarm me because it means that my dietary intake is too much carbs.
The only other thing is, if that result is unusual, you could test again.
If you still have insulin resistance, I would likely drop all carbs as much as possible, the amount of usable insulin produced for the spikes is continuing to grow. If you haven't got insulin resistance, the need to stop the trigger is important to be healthy.
Your body can't take the carbs in that meal. Adjust your diet accordingly and keep testing.
Keep safe.
